The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-12

burning Then my strength gave way, and l
was compelled to desist and seek assistance my
self"
There was a Bohemian family named Miller
In this i'll fated coach. They from Dnn-
dee, ILL.,. and all en- route to Hungary.
The father. mother and two daughters sat visa
VIZ. Behind the parents their two sons.
When the heavy Pullman drove the day coach
against the baggage-car the entire family were
hurled over the seats and driven between the
ends of the two cars. The flames moved up
from behind with fearful rapidity The father
and husband lay dead with an iron rod through
his throat. but the of the unfortunate fami-
" were still alive when the trainmen sought
TO rescue them. Everything was done TO
drag the children from the Pile
but without avail The fire crept nearer and
nearer until finally cushion OF a seat olazed up
just above the womans head. The poor creature
tried to speak, but no ineligible sound escaped
her lips Then she attempted 10 pass ono oil ner
girls, wee mite os thing. whose white apron
was stained with blood. TO the rescuers who
were crowded about the terrible scene. When
the woman saw that death was Inevitable she
closed her eyes as if in prayer, and, wrapping
her only free arm around the waists of her
children nearest her. awaited the coming OF the
flames From this unfortunate family but one
the sons, Herman by name,
bright lad of fourteen. who man
eeed to break out OF his furnace just as ms
parents persisted The boy now lies hotel
in this place. He is crushed about the head and
it is thought he cannot 1--we until morning
middle-aged Irish lady. who was in the day
imprisoned, she was burned to death before the
spectators.
Dr. VIM Perry, of North Judson. his wife and
q little daughter were all asleep when the crash
came. The concussion hurled them over the
seats and piled them with the other unfortunates
in the front end of the car. Mr. Perry made q
terrible struggle for life. He succeeded in get
ting half Of his body through one of the win
dows, but the timbers of the roof,
which had fallen down, held his
legs in vlce-like grip. Below the doomed
man lay his wife and child. They had hoped
that the husband and father. who had wormed
his way freedom. would come to
rescue them. When they realized that their
doom was irrevocably sealed they screamed
frantcally and drove the father wild with their
pteous screams Another effort made to
drag the Doctor from tho window. but a wave of
flame drove the rescuers back upon the prairie,
where they watched the gray head drop upon
the window-sill and finally disappear from view.
When the flames had spent their fury a hun
dred men and boys invaded the wreck and be-
gan TO search for the bodies. But one dead re-
manned untouched by the fire. This was the
body of a man supposed by the railroad officials
To have been tramp VINO was stealing ride on
the freight train. His head and breast
crushed to a pulp. In the of the day
coach the blackened and dismem bered bodies of
nine persons were found. The sickening pile of
ashes and flesh lay near the front end, although
fingers aud even thigh bones were picked up
near the center of thescoach This leads many
to believe that at least fifteen, and perhaps
twenty, persons lost their lives